This workshop is for the English teachers. Here is your scenario:Your students must be given a text or short story to read and annotate. Using their annotations, they must complete an independent assignment that will check for effective note taking, critical reading skills, and understanding of the objectives covered by the Common Core Standards. Teaching students to annotate as they read encourages active reading and increases comprehension.
Check out this quick clip on how to get students to annotate as they read: Annotation
Try doing annotations yourself before introducing them to your students. Read this short story, use the annotation sheet and create a worked example for your students using YouTube, Screecast-O-Matic, or some other recording software and add it to your website for your students. Annotation sheet Eleven-S. Cisneros Annotation Guide
Once you are familiar with the annotations, design a lesson that encourages students to annotate. Here is an example:
You are teaching an 11th grade an early American Literature class. You must create a lesson with links to a reading, links to a worksheet or another activity, and offer a final assessment on the lesson. You can choose the text and the method of assessment. Students should be given two texts to read and compare from the chosen theme. They must annotate each text, then complete an independent assignment that requires use of their notes for satisfactory completion. Here are your guidelines:
Lesson must meet Common Core Standards for 11th grade
Lesson must cover an entire unit of study (Puritan Society, Early American Indians, Colonial America, The beginning of the Colonists unrest with England and its impact on literature, etc..)
Assessments must meet the needs of all learners (offer options)
Independent activities must be relevant with emphasis on annotations, research and comprehension to the text chosen
Due dates and deadlines must be clearly stated on the home page of your site
Must be a blog activity associated with this lesson
See an Example
Here is an example of a lesson that I recently did with my own 11th grade class. This lesson was posted on my own classroom website. Watch the screencast to get an idea of what you need to add to your own site.
Feel free to look at my own site and see how each component listed above is integrated into the lesson I created. Be sure to look at the sections Reading Links, Project descriptions, and Rubrics for 11th Grade. These examples should give you an idea of the lesson you need to create for your own site. Ms. Bilal's Site
Rubrics
Use this website to create individualized rubrics for your own lessons. There are templates you can use and tweek to your needs, as well. This is a great resource for use for future lessons and assignments.
Be sure to add your created rubric to your site so that parents, students and administrators can see how you will be grading your students.
Creating Your Masterpiece
Transferring your paper lesson plans to a website can be a daunting task, at first. You must think of ways to make your work multimedia and Internet ready. When designing your lesson, think of ways that your students can complete their work both in the classroom and at home. Think of a design for your lessons that both parents and students can follow easily and efficiently. Using the scenario above, create an online version of your lesson plan and upload it to your website. Publish it, then send me an email letting me know that it is complete.
TIME TO TEACH!!!
This workshop is for the English teachers. Here is your scenario:Your students must be given a text or short story to read and annotate. Using their annotations, they must complete an independent assignment that will check for effective note taking, critical reading skills, and understanding of the objectives covered by the Common Core Standards. Teaching students to annotate as they read encourages active reading and increases comprehension.Check out this quick clip on how to get students to annotate as they read:
Annotation
Try doing annotations yourself before introducing them to your students. Read this short story, use the annotation sheet and create a worked example for your students using YouTube, Screecast-O-Matic, or some other recording software and add it to your website for your students.
Annotation sheet
Eleven-S. Cisneros
Annotation Guide
Once you are familiar with the annotations, design a lesson that encourages students to annotate. Here is an example:
You are teaching an 11th grade an early American Literature class. You must create a lesson with links to a reading, links to a worksheet or another activity, and offer a final assessment on the lesson. You can choose the text and the method of assessment. Students should be given two texts to read and compare from the chosen theme. They must annotate each text, then complete an independent assignment that requires use of their notes for satisfactory completion. Here are your guidelines:
See an Example
Here is an example of a lesson that I recently did with my own 11th grade class. This lesson was posted on my own classroom website. Watch the screencast to get an idea of what you need to add to your own site.Feel free to look at my own site and see how each component listed above is integrated into the lesson I created. Be sure to look at the sections Reading Links, Project descriptions, and Rubrics for 11th Grade. These examples should give you an idea of the lesson you need to create for your own site.
Ms. Bilal's Site
Rubrics
Use this website to create individualized rubrics for your own lessons. There are templates you can use and tweek to your needs, as well. This is a great resource for use for future lessons and assignments.RUBRICS
Be sure to add your created rubric to your site so that parents, students and administrators can see how you will be grading your students.
Creating Your Masterpiece
Transferring your paper lesson plans to a website can be a daunting task, at first. You must think of ways to make your work multimedia and Internet ready. When designing your lesson, think of ways that your students can complete their work both in the classroom and at home. Think of a design for your lessons that both parents and students can follow easily and efficiently. Using the scenario above, create an online version of your lesson plan and upload it to your website. Publish it, then send me an email letting me know that it is complete.